Mayor Calls Recent Spate of Teen Murders in City "Heartbreaking"

Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says she's concerned about a wave of deadly violence involving young people in the city.

Police are investigating the third teenage murder in just over a week, a trend the mayor calls "heartbreaking".

The latest victim is a 14-year-old boy identified by police as Najee Thomas.

He was shot in the head at a home on the 600 block of Roundview Road in Baltimore about one a.m.

Police have no immediate motive or suspects and are asking the public for help in gathering leads.

Thomas was a ninth-grader at Baltimore's Coppin Academy High School. Principal Aisha Almond tells WBAL Radio he was well-liked by teachers and classmates and was just about to join the school's baseball team.

Last Wednesday 17-year-old Michael Mayfield was gunned down in a minivan on Lyndhurst Avenue.

No arrests have been reported.

A week ago Monday, 18 year old Raysharde Sinclair was stabbed to death at a Crown Station on York Road.

Police have made an arrest in that case.

Anyone with leads in either of the open cases is urged to call 410-396-2100 in confidence.